On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:03, David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 23 November 2001 07:40, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > Sorry about the delayed response :( ...
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:19, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:54, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > > > Hello...
> > > >
> > > > As you may be aware, I'm developing an import fitler for KWord but I
> > > > am completely new to KOffice, Linux and KDE.  So I was wondering if
> > > > anyone would be able to please answer some of my questions below:
> > > >
> > > > 1. It seems that I cannot call "bool KoStore::write( const char*
> > > > _data, unsigned long _len )" more than once.  I thought that it would
> > > > have acted a bit like fwrite where you can call it more than once.  I
> > > > mean, if I can't call it more than once, I would have to accumulate
> > > > all my output into one huge string and then call KoStore::write at
> > > > the end.  Isn't this hopelessly inefficient?
> > >
> > > You should be able to call write() more than once, there's no reason
> > > why not. About the efficiency and the buffering... well, when writing,
> > > KoStore has to buffer the data anyway :(. Can't be fixed until we ditch
> > > tar.gz and go for something like zip - reason: the tar format requires
> > > to write down the size of the data before writing the actual data...
> > > So what's happening exactly ? Do you get any error... ?
> >
> > write () returns a different value (false ???) the second time it's
> > called and doesn't seem to write anything at all.
>
> Yes, but does anything appear in the debug output, in the console where
> you start kword ? Much code is calling write() more than once, so the
> problem has to be more subtle than that (and I would guess, not in
> KoStore).
>

After 3 hours, I finally tracked it down...
It has nothing to do with calling write () more than once.
It was because I didn't destruct my instance of KoStore (I thought that this
would have been done automagically in the spirit of QT!) and so the outputted
store was always 0 bytes long, since some uninitialisation hadn't taken place.

So hint to developers: If you ever write:

KoStore *outfile = new KoStore (QString (outfilename), KoStore::Write);

remember to:

outfile->close ();
delete (outfile);		// <-- I forgot this line!!!

So, it was my fault :)

Clarence
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